Background: Thyroid abnormalities are common in chronic heart failure. Severity of heart failure rises by several fold in patients with thyroid dysfunction. Objectives: The purpose of this prospective study is to determine the correlation between low T3 syndrome and chronic heart failure with 2D echocardiography features & predicting the severity of chronic heart failure. Methods: In this descr...

The book Drug Therapy in Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis is one of 11 volumes in a series of monographs on basic and clinical cardiology. It deals with the traditional, novel, and experimental pharmacologic agents used to treat congestive heart failure (CHF) and myocarditis, and with the relationship between these two disorders. The precise definition of dilated cardiomyopathy differs ac...

BACKGROUND Laser therapy has been the gold standard treatment for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), while intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) is reported to be of significant benefit for zone I ROP. A problem with laser therapy is that it is difficult to administer in ROP patients with severely dilated tunica vasculosa lentis and poor mydriasis. However, although IVB treatment has been performed in ...

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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Previous studies on the influence of Chagas disease on mortality in patients with heart failure were limited by the heterogeneity of the patient populations. Few data are available on the association between the underlying cause of dilated cardiomyopathy and long-term prognosis. The aims of this study were to identify risk factors for mortality in patients with dilat...

BACKGROUND Dilated cardiomyopathy and ischaemic heart disease can both lead to right ventricular (RV) dysfunction. Direct comparisons of the two entities regarding RV size and function using state-of-the-art imaging techniques have not yet been performed. We aimed to determine RV function and volume in dilated cardiomyopathy and ischaemic heart disease in relation to left ventricular (LV) systo...

BACKGROUND We performed duct-to-mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy with resection of jejunal serosa in 55 patients, and here compare the clinical results between duct-to-mucosa pancreaticojejunostomies with a non-dilated pancreatic duct and those with a dilated duct. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the period 1999 to 2005, 55 patients (27 F, 28 M; mean age 63.4 years) underwent duct-to-mucosa pancreaticoj...

Dilated cardiomyopathy can be the end-stage form and common denominator of several cardiac disorders of known cause, such as hypertensive, ischemic, diabetic and Chagasic diseases. However, some individuals have clinical findings, such as an increase in ventricular chamber size and impaired contractility (classical manifestations of dilated cardiomyopathy) even in the absence of a diagnosed pri...

Introduction Moyamoya disease is a rare cerebrovascular occlusive disease of unknown etiology, characterized by stenosis or occlusion of both internal carotid arteries (ICAs) at the supraclinoid portion and an abnormal vascular network (moyamoya vessels)(1). 3-T MR angiography clearly shows moyamoya vessels at the base of the brain (2). Gadolinium-enhanced MRI depicts dilated pial vessels (ivy ...